Audio Column by Sukey Howard

Spenser and Hawk are at it again, backing each other up, battling the bad guys and bantering in their darkly funny, self-amused style, perfectly voiced here by Joe Mantegna. But all is not hunky-dory: just before Cold Service opens, Hawk was shot and nearly killed and it takes months to get this hardest of the hard-boiled back in fighting shape. Once there, he and Spenser have a growing list...